Let’s level up.
Welcome to EQUIP 2024, our annual night of team-building and training for every volunteer team across every congregation!
This gathering is designed for practical ministry training for our volunteer teams as we prepare for the next ministry year. We’ve packed this night with a fun pre-event (food trucks, lawn games, and good times!),
an opening session with our Senior Pastor Eric Geiger, and team breakouts.
If you’ve been serving for years or just joined a team, this event is for you!
Wed, Aug 14 | 7-9p
Pre-event fun begins at 6p
Mariners Irvine, 5001 Newport Coast Dr
Breakouts
Check out what your team is planning for you!
(Click here for map of breakout locations)
After Equip you will be able to:
- Greeters + Hospitality + Events: MC rm 208
- Understand the importance of dedication to the team as it relates to time commitment and full engagement in your roles and responsibilities
- Understand the impact your role makes on the overall guest experience each weekend
- Ushers: MC rm 208 to rm 206
- Understand your roles within the Worship Center
- Understand how your posture and responsibilities are a part of the service program and worship experience
- Parking: MC rm 208 to rm 207
- Understand your specific role and responsibilities on the parking team and what is expected of the team each weekend
- Next Step: MC rm 208 to rm 204
- Understand how to identify new or disconnected guests
- Implement techniques to initiate conversations with guests and lead them to their next step
- Understand where merchandise is located and how to support the Receivers
- Understand the layout of the bookstore and product placements
- Understand your role and responsibilities during the week and weekends
- Learn the expectations of a cafe volunteer and how to serve guests with exceptional hospitality
- Understand the relationship between Mariners Church and Constellation Culinary and how to serve the staff with respect
- Understand the next steps based on your level of engagement with the cafe
- Understand and execute proper safety procedures to manage tasks
- Understand how the Campus Events team supports all ministries and their activities
- Knowledge of campus buildings and the types of events the team supports
- Understand the resources available to you
- Understand how to use Planning Center as a tool to give you access to resources and help you rehearse
- Learn how to actively listen and how to apply what you’ve heard into the framework of:
- What to play/sing
- When to play/sing
- How it should sound
- Understand how your skills as a production technician serve the mission of our church across Southern California
- Understand the production training roadmap
- Understand MXU (our video training website) and how it works, and determine a clear and specific action item for how to take your next step in your role
- Be able to articulate the vision behind Creative Arts & Content and how it connects to the overall mission and vision of Mariners
- Understand practical guidelines for creating creative content that serves our church and points to Jesus
- Connect with other creatives from our church and explore collaboration opportunities
- Share the mission/vision behind why we do Youth Ministry
- Implement helpful tools for guiding and ministering to youth in small group and large group settings
- Know Ministry Safe and student care expectations
- Understand the expectations of your role (e.g. gathering rhythms, volunteer role description, communication expectations, etc.)
- Kids Orientation & Onboarding
- Understand the mission, strategy, and structure of Kids Ministry
- Understand role expectations, including implementing safety protocols
- Complete requirements for serving with Mariners Kids
- Leading Kids in Worship
- Understand the value of worship in kids discipleship from key Scriptures
- How to practice and memorize a song and hand motions
- How to engage with all kids so that they are encouraged to participate and sing
- Large Group Hosting & Adding the Fun
- Understand the use and importance of storytelling as a tool by Jesus
- Apply principles and best practices to help teach the Bible lesson to children, and make it fun and applicable to their life
- Understand how to connect beyond just the stage
- How to Handle Hard Behaviors & Classroom Management
- Identify what strategies work best for different age groups, with a basis in love and grace
- Understand how to create a classroom environment that sets a child up for success
- Implement tools and tactics when you encounter harder behaviors
- Leading Kids To Christ from Stage to Small Group (Elementary)
- Understand the privilege to lead kids to Jesus. Understand the importance of lifelong discipleship, not just a moment.
- Understand where our confidence for conversation comes from. Understand the importance of holding the conversation with kids through relationships, and at a table during small group with children
- How to help children know Jesus is with them and have confidence about their faith and how to share that with others
- Leading in Kids Ministry as a Kid (Jr. Leaders + JHM Leaders)
- Understand why it is important to have students leading in Kids ministry; roles and rules
- Understand what it means to be responsible, respectful, and resourceful
- Understand what to do when you’re done serving (when role is completed and checking out)
- Kids Guest Services Training: Welcoming the entire family
- Know how to execute the following tasks and the differences between Self-Check computers vs the Guest Services Laptop
- Understand the requirements for a Test Drive and the requirements for a Guest Sticker
- Display biblical hospitality while interacting with families
- Leading Big: What it means to be a coach (Invitation Only)
- Explain the difference between a Coach and a Leader
- Understand and use the Care Structure to identify people you are caring for
- Communicate the training roadmap and regular meetings rhythms to their leaders
- Understand the specific needs of a family with special needs and how it impacts their ability to be part of a church community
- Learn practical ways to support a family at church (e.g. weekend Buddy, Parents Day Out, Love WIthout Limits, Exceptional Socials, etc.)
- Learn practical ways to support a family during the week to help them belong
- Understand who the Quartet of the Vulnerable is
- Apply your understanding of the Quartet of the Vulnerable to the ministries in which you serve
- Understand the Seek the Good campaign and be prepared to welcome new volunteers
- Understand the vision of regeneration and have a next step to learning more at our Celebration Night (9/30)
- Implement tools, resources, and guidelines to build teams and run your ministry well
- Understand the structure and values of Care and Recovery ministries to better serve participants
- Understand the whole of the ministry and our Loop strategy across all sections of the ministry
- Understand how to drive couples to their next step and learn how to extrapolate the individual or couple’s needs.
- Understanding of other areas of ministry our volunteers can step into and how to bring others along with them (coaching Life Groups, facilitating Rooted, resource table at Marriage Matters)
- Understand the Why – ministry overview based on the church’s strategy, data, and a clear understanding of our discipleship pathway
- Understand the Grow Together resources available for active and engaged women
- Understand care structures, the different roles (senior coach, coach, leader, and volunteers) that exist, processes of leadership development, and practical ways to build teams within ministries
- Understand how to intentionally pursue people you don’t know on campus with hopes of having a spiritual conversation that would lead to sharing the gospel and inviting them to the following: on-campus events, on-campus Rooted, Thursday Nights at Mariners
- Understand your role as shepherd and practical ways to live that out in your group
- Implement techniques to deal with/prevent attrition within your group
- Understand how to navigate your My Mariners Group Toolbox (book serve experiences, update group roster, etc.)
- Understand the reasons behind the Safety Team, why we do what we do, and how we can be a ministry while serving
- Effectively communicate to our congregations, and respectfully keep them safe by knowing the power of “Hello”
- Implement proper procedure to safely and respectfully search bags
- Articulate the reason why we have Mariners Online
- Understand the unique situations of Online congregation members and our role in connecting them to Mariners as a home church
- Identify and verbalize the right next step for a person online
- Invite in a way that addresses needs, removes barriers, and builds relationships
- Utilize resources that support new guests navigating their first experience with the church
- Understand the scope of ministry offered through new congregations and opportunities to serve regularly
- Invite in a way that addresses needs, removes barriers, and builds relationships
- Utilize resources that support new guests navigating their first experience with the church
- Understand the scope of ministry offered through new congregations and opportunities to serve regularly
